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Movers and Shakers of AI

Sam Altman

  • CEO of OpenAI

  • Former president of Y Combinator

  • Known for visionary leadership and emphasis on ethical AI development

  • Advocate for AI safety and regulation

 

Dario Amodei

  • CEO and co-founder of Anthropic

  • Former VP of Research at OpenAI

  • Focuses on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

  • Committed to safety in AI development

 

Geoffrey Hinton

  • "Godfather of Deep Learning"

  • Seminal figure in neural networks and deep learning

  • Turing Award winner

  • Advocate for careful consideration of AI's impact on society

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  • Yann LeCun

    • Chief AI Scientist at Meta

    • Turing Award winner

    • Pioneering work in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and computer vision

    • Advocate for self-supervised learning and openness in research

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  • Yoshua Bengio

    • Professor at University of Montreal

    • Turing Award winner

    • Founder and scientific director of Mila

    • Focuses on neural networks, generative models, and representation learning

    • Deeply involved in AI ethics

  • Demis Hassabis

    • Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind

    • Integrates neuroscience and AI

    • DeepMind achieved milestones like AlphaGo and AlphaFold

    • Dedicated to using AI for widespread benefit

  • Fei-Fei Li

    • Professor at Stanford University

    • Co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

    • Driving force behind ImageNet

    • Advocate for diversity in STEM and ethical AI development

  • Andrew Ng

    • Co-founder of Coursera and deeplearning.ai

    • Adjunct professor at Stanford University

    • Passionate about making AI education accessible

    • Emphasizes a pragmatic approach to AI adoption

  • Ilya Sutskever

    • Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI

    • Research central to many breakthroughs in neural networks

    • Played a pivotal role in developing GPT-3 and GPT-4

    • Committed to advancing AI safely

  • Jeff Dean

    • Google Senior Fellow leading Google AI

    • Instrumental in designing Google's core infrastructure

    • Co-founded Google Brain team

    • Key figure in the development of TensorFlow

  • Stuart Russell

    • Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley

    • Co-authored "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach"

    • Advocate for the development of beneficial AI

  • Peter Norvig

    • Director of Research at Google

    • Co-authored "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach"

    • Expertise in both practical and theoretical aspects of AI

    • Advocate for open-source software

  • Ian Goodfellow

    • Best known for inventing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

    • Co-authored the textbook "Deep Learning"

    • Recognized for his contributions to AI safety and security

  • Richard Sutton

    • Professor at University of Alberta

    • Distinguished Research Scientist at DeepMind

    • One of the founding fathers of reinforcement learning

    • Authored "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction"

  • Andrej Karpathy

    • Known for his work in deep learning and computer vision

    • Former Director of AI at Tesla

    • Created one of the earliest online courses on deep learning

  • Ruslan Salakhutdinov

    • Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University

    • Former Director of AI Research at Apple

    • Research encompasses probabilistic graphical models, deep learning, and large-scale optimization

  • Cynthia Breazeal

    • Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab

    • Pioneer in social robotics and human-robot interaction

    • Founder and director of the Personal Robots Group

    • Creator of Kismet

  • Sebastian Thrun

    • Entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist

    • Known for contributions to robotics, autonomous driving, and online education

    • Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University

    • Founder and CEO of Udacity

  • Kate Crawford

    • Researcher, writer, and professor focused on AI's social and political implications

    • Research Professor at USC Annenberg

    • Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research

    • Co-founded AI Now Institute

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